Tweet By Harry Trend Newport County knocked a top flight side out of the FA Cup for the first time since January 1964 on Saturday as they overcame Leicester City 2-1 at Rodney Parade. Rachid Ghezzal looked like he was going to be Leicester’s main outlet, early on he forced a strong one-handed save from Joe Day. However, the home side drew first blood. Robbie Willmott beat Christian Fuchs down the line, before floating a cross in. On the receiving end was Jamille Matt, who hung in the air to…

Tweet The SSE Women’s FA Cup made history at Wembley Stadium on Saturday as it achieved a competition-record attendance of 45,423. This is the fourth consecutive year that the record has been broken, with an increase of over 10,000 fans on last year’s cup final. Quite a contrast to just five years ago, when less than 5000 were in attendance at Doncaster’s Keepmoat Stadium. Heather O’Reilly, 2018 cup finalist and winger for Arsenal Women, said: “People can’t be interested in the women’s game if they don’t watch it and these…

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Tweet The Eurovision Song Contest for 2019 will be held in Tel Aviv on the 18th May. The final may be a while away but the deadline for each country to decide their participant is mid-March. A few countries have announced their competitor including Tamta from Cyprus, Jonida Maliqi from Albania and Srbuk from Armenia. Each country can decide whether to send their best talent or they could send a rising star to compete. The 42 participants will be take part in two semi-finals were the competitors will be reduced…

Tweet By Ryan Clark and Rhea Cheramparambil Fireworks at this time of year may not seem out of the ordinary with Guy Fawkes night and religious events like Diwali happening in early November, but I doubt you would expect them in September. This would be unless you lived in Sussex or any of the surrounding areas. Every year different branches of the Sussex Bonfire Societies are responsible for organising a series of bonfire and firework events which start at the beginning of September and last well into November. These bonfires…